The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. U n der the Management of H isis 4 Louisa Pyle and Mr. W. Harron. THIS EVENING (10th time) a new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's Comedy, mid•to be called SIP: STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. After which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National pantomime, HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven. - - 111-IBATRE ROYAL DR ÜB. Y-L AN E. 3lanagers, Messrs. Edmond Fa lconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with THE MAN OF THE WORLD. Mr. Phelps, Mr. Barrett, Mr. G. Neville; Misses Atkinson, R. Leclercq, and Murray. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic mime o f o f SINBAD THE SAILO it ; or, Wondersnof th . World. Clowns , Mes srs. H. Bolen° and C. Lauri ; liariequins, :sles:.,rs. J. Corma,ck and S. Saville; Pantaloons. Messrs. W A. BArn,s and J. :uorris ; Columbines, :Madame 13ot eno and Ittisses annniss. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. -----------. ROYAL HAYMARX.ET.— soi, T.essee and Manager, Mr, Ruckstone. THIS EVENIiTG, A KISS IN THE DARK. Messrs. After which, SRE STOOPS TO CONQUER . Gordon, : Buckstone, bi o pendale, Cullentord , Howe, AV Clark, &c.; Mesdames Angel, Snowdon, Fitzwilliarn, Z4c. To be fol:owed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. and To conclude with KI NG ARTHUR ; or The Days Knights of the Roun d Table. Messrs. Chippe n dale, Compton, eley, Braid, Clark , Roge rs, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames 1. Ke Beough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. IR 10/1 OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole 31anagement of Hr. Fechter. ,$....W BEL DESIONIO (a Triumphant SueCess) will be repeated Every Evening, during the week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: Mess-s. IL Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Wood. Mrs. Lee, 31. , a.elaud ; Hisses Percy, Pauline Leliercl, And Miss E. Lavenu. A \ter which, at Eight o'clock. BEL DESIONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableau, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle by Hr. John on gam. Principal charac terbyicle, by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brow:rim, Ery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims Mts Kate Terry, Miss N. Liman, Hrs. Lee, and Hiss Elsworthy. The Publlc are entreated to take notice that No Charge is `inade to the occupa3ts of Boxes, 130%-plaCe3, or Stalls, either tor play bills or for the safe keeping of hat+ and cloaks, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden t..) receive any gratuities whatever. • Box-odke open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Levee and Manager, Mr. Geo. 'Vining,. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which. HA.RLEQUI 4 LITTLE TO TUCKER;oman or The Fine Lady of Rmbary Cross, and th M e Old W who Lived in a Shoe and Had so l!:any Children she didn't snow what to do. EW THEATRE-R° ir AL, ADELPHI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. 2:st Week of Miss Bateman. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. miss Woolgar and Mr. J. L. Toole. ikt to Eight, the N ew Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil inzton, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. BMW:Am To e-mclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seven Tf a; - ; - i3 Men. Messrs. J. C lark lare, R. Phi Patllipsti, St e phenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K.y, Miss iose;hs, Kiss L. Laidla.w, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH. -E ITER Y DHSS BATEMAN. NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—Tms EVENING, the 122 d appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA. rEMAINT, in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the principal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended. Mr ;Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVEitY EVENINU until further notice. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Cro•A ded with rank an d f ashion.— The New Comedy of THE biLVE LISING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Frank Matthews and Mr. J. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are nzaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Tonle, Mr. Paul Bi-dtord. Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Herbert. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at 7 o'o'ock, an entirely new Comedy - , in 3 Acts, by Leicester Bucking ham,;Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINI : Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John s'nne. Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentwort h, and Mrs. Stirling. • To be followed by Mr, Charles Mathews just translated from the French)in his characteristic character of Un Ang - lais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To cond. - tide with 1861; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON J. Toole. Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss Fanny Josephs. OPAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swariborougli. SA) THIS EVV,NING, ON AND OFF. To be followed by UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr. _)elfor3, Mr. F arselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. After which, the Grand Christuns Burlesque, ORPIIEI73 IND FURY )10E : Messrs. Hbney, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at • TITHE T}PBD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, aau be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEurs AGENT, No. 4. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. C OALS. —The LILLESHALL COMP ANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 265. per ton. I Double.. ....... 21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ ..... 19s. „ Deep ...225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourue Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf Paddington, W. . Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. ------- SIMI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA.r.—Moraing, 2h. 15m.—Aftornoon, n. 35m, 10-vonsow.-Homing, :2h. 53:n.—Afternoon, 3h. 3:n The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 22, 186 T ITERMOMET ER. This day at Two o'clock 33 Barometer-29.7 3 . Wind—N,E.; moderate breeze, and foggy. ~~ll~ ~$ :SUR LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1804 Austria and Prussia, after invading the pure l y Danish province of Jutland, and there retaining their troops during forty-eight hours, quite law lessly, upon the soil of Denmark Proper have — upon reflection—evacuated it. They still overrun Holstein. They still hold possession of Schleswig as material guarantee." Those allied assailants of the sovereign power of King CHRISTIAN IX , and of the independence of the nationality to the vindi cation of which that monarch has hut so very recently been summoned by the death of his predecessor — Austria and Prussia, in the name of the Germanic Diet, having occupied Holstein and seques strated Schleswi g , have planted the feet of their soldiery for a while upon the soil of Jutland, only—upon second thoughts —to evacuate that in vaded peninsula. For the advance of the German armies into Holstein, even for their advance into Schleswig, some show of argument might be put forth, in effect has all along been put forth in bold words, by the diplomatists and the Governments of the Confederation. But for the still further advance of the Austro-Prussian troops into Jut land no vestige of a plea, even of the most el aa d o ," kind, could by passibility be adduced. It was simply lawless. It was simply a brutal violation of all the most sacred rights of an independent Sovereignty. It was an act admitting d no emell,;6 whatever. It was an outrage in no way to ba extenuated. The peninsula of Jutlan4 is an integral portion of Denmark Proper. Whatever may be argued about Schleswig or Ho'. s t 6 i n , separately . , or about, both of them together not hi ng whatever can be said in regard to Jutland. but that it is intensely and essentially D an i sh throug hout, that it is part and parcel of purely Danish territory. If the crossing of the Eider, that of the southern boundary-line of Schleswig, hi the Austro-Prussian troops, was bad on the part of Powers of Germany—far the two lead in g worse, far - more outrageous, was the' course pursued by them last week when the German soldiers advanced still farther in their la Vess inva sion of the kingdom of Denmark : crossing not the southern but the northern boundary of not the Eider but tha Skadborg or Scholborg, So monstrone, so wholly unjustifiable, indeed was this proceeding on the part of the as6ailants and inTaders of Denmark, that even in the Britigh House of u nns, the Prime Minister of 3 Da -nothing, on-intervention, Ree.-and-bc- Thankful, Cabinet was constrained (when ques tioned, point blank, upon the subject) to reprobate the movement as it deserved. Lord PALMERSTON, it is true, declined to intimate, how ever vaguely or indirectly, what aotion her MA JESTY'S Government would take thereupon ; or if, indeed, they would ba disposed to take any a ion at all under the sting of that la st and fi.rcest goad. Nevertheless, while maintaining a dogged silence as to the future policy of the Cabinet, even contingently upon the invasion of Jutland, the Premier, as only in truth became him under the circumstances, designated so very monstrous an invasion as that, in the only terms in which it admits in any way of being accurately designated. Whether Jutland had actually been invaded or not, remained for a while matter of some uncertainty. It appeared almost a thing incredible—even after all the recent lawless ness of the Germanic Powers in their invasion of Denmark. Tne announcement of the evacultion of Jutland, however, is, in itself, conclusive. The perpetration of that last and crowning outrage upon the twofold rights of Danish Independence and of the Danish Sovereignty, no longer admitted of being simply hypothetical, when the intelligence comes of the actual reversal of the step after two days' interval in that direction, the distinct reversal of it, namely, by the evacuation of that portion of the peninsula. The allies, like Fear in COLLINS'S Ode, have " back recoiled"—hut, probably, unlike their prototype, they know full well " why." The occu pation of Jutland could hardly have been regarded apathetically even by the meekest stickler for the principle of Non•interventioa, and for that E isy, Dawdling, Do-nothing policy which has grown out of it. Even if Ministers had shown themselves in this matter fain to look on quietly while this last shameful act was being perpetrated by the Austro-Prussian army with impunity, we cm scarcely deem it probable that the Par liament of England would, to that extent at least, have indorsed the non-intervention policy of the Government. The Opposition muat then, at length, have been awakened from its protracted torpor. The policy of Ministers must, at last have then necessitated a decisive division for them or against them. Another dilemma has, however, been so far happily tidedlover by the Ministry, thanks to a pru dent afterthought revising the strategic movements of the allies in the seat of this lamentable war in Den_ mark. Like the King of France in the old nursery song, marching up the hill and then down again, the German soldiery have entered Jutland for a couple of days—only to evacuate it, however, at the end of the brief interval during which they had thus indulged their insolence as aggressors. So far, their evacuation of Jutland is a concession to public decency. As it is, however, they have out raged all sense of right, and justice, and decorum, before all Europe, by their temporary advance into that purely Danish province of Jutland—as they bad done already, for that matter, by the brutal violence with which, with a force of seventy thousand men, they advanced into Schleswig against Danish forces numerically so insignificant ! Presenting to view, all the while—as they are doing—the spectacle of two of the greatest Powers in Europe banded together for the infliction of a cruel wrong by brutal violence upon a lesser Power ! That lesser Power being, up to this present moment, left completely in the lurch by the rest of the Powers (great and small) in Christendom. A. matter of considerable provincial importance was discussed on Friday evening in the House of Commons. In the Ind which is now preceding tha political storm which may be safely expected to follow the production of the foreign correspondence of our G)vernmcnt, min'r topics rise to the surface and occupy a degree of time and attention which would hardly be accorded to them under other cir- cumstanees. All parties are resting ou their oars, as it were, and have leisure to spare for the consi- deration of those internal arrangements which are happily of a more peaceful and satisfactory nature ,han those of most States. Instead of struggles for supremacy between Crown and Parliament, in place of anx:ous cogitation over army estimates and de fensive preparations against a foreign foe, or, worse still, to make ready for the sudden emergencies of a desolating civil war, we find our members delibe rating on the rival claims of two country towns to he dignity of the assizes, It may be remembered by our readers that it has been decided to hold a separate commission for the West Riding of York- shire, a district whose extent and imp3rtance ele vate it almost to the rank of a county. So far back as 1852 the Law Commission reported in :avour of such a proceeding, the report bearing the signatures of several eminent jatiges. Five years later a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the place where the assize should be held, con sisting of Sir JOHN PABINGTON, Colonel WILSON PATTEN, the late Speaker, and the ex-Lord Chancel• for as President. This commission were, it seems, unanimous against the selection of Leeds as the assize town ; two of the members, Sir J. PARING TON and Colonel W. PATTEN being in favour of Wakefield, and the rest opposed to it. The Home Office received the report, but the Government came to no decision on the matter, which wass nbmitted to some members of the Privy Council, who gave their opinion in favour of Leeds. As yet, however, no order has been made upon the subject, and therefore Sir JOHN HAY, in moving for an address to her MAJESTY in favour of Wake field, expressed some hope that he was not too late to obtain the granting of his petition. Accordingly the partisans of Leeds and Wakefield came forward valiantly on behalf of their respective clients, and recounted all their claims to pre-eminence, and rehearsed the arguments in their favour. On behalf of Wakefield, the plaintiff in the cause, it was said that the great majority of the inhabitants, the magistrates, the privy councillors, and the members of the West Riding were on its side. Of 350 magis trates, nearly 200 had expressed themselves in its favour, while only 59 were for Leeds. Its accom modation for judges, juries, and barristers was also stated to be greatly superior to that of its rival, the county building at Wakefield having cost £250,000, whereas a rate must be levied ou the county to provide assize courts at Leeds. It was further contended by Sir I. HAT that the selection of Lee is would be a slight to the county town—a somewhat sentimental reason, followed by the weightier argument of the inconvenience of re moving the prisoners, who are all committed to Wakefield before WM., to Leeds for the assize. Mr. LEATIIAT, I , i n a very amusing speech, brought forward a whole in g c l a n t d al j o n g n u t e a o n f a reeaastonnesst,anind support ra- Etrances, in m of the motion. Leeds, he •• , said, was poisoned by its dense population and its mof ass steam machinery. The' atmosphere was murky, the vegetation decay ing, the court was the worst place in the world for heating, and on every ground its claim was insuffi cient. Tha hon. member draw a laughable pie- WIT of the surprise and delight Of ' the good citizens of Leeds at the dignity 'which bad come ea unexpectedly upon them, and now it had been said that the Ministers had chosen the town out of regard for the member for that borough who overawed them by going about "carrying a eingle - barreled Befcrm Bill at full cock." Then reclaim the erring and relieve the distressed among their fellow creatures, and we know that in some respects this is a practical fulfilment of the divine inculcation to feed the hungry and take in the stranger. That society cannot be prosperous, or deserve to be so, where no attempts are made to do something for the class, whose name is legion, who, when night comes, knows not where they shall pass it. It is earnestly to be hoped that the charitable efforts now being made to do something in the good cause will not be unheeded, but that a vigorcus support will ensure the success of this and many institutions. came the speakers on the other side, foremost among them being the Home Secretary himself. He an nouticel that it was after careful deliberation the committee had come to the conclusion that Leeds had the best claim, a decision arrived at without regard to political or private interests, but with the sole view of forwarding the cheap, speedy, and effectual administration of justice. As for the magistrates, he said they were mostly in favour of making no change at all, and their opinion consequently was not of much weight. It remained for Mr. BEECROFT, however, to suns up the case in favour of Leeds, which he did so clearly and conclusively as to lease little to be said by the other party. Leeds is the most populous town in the whole dist.rict ; it has 270,00) inhabitants against Wakefield's 2QOOO, end within a radius of ten miles Leeds numbers 600,000 persocs. There are only eight miles between the two towns, and as Mr. BEECROFT very justly said, common sense indicates that the small population should go to the larger town, and not the large population to the small town, The great railway companies have chosen Leeds as their general ter minus—an additional proof that it is the natural centre of the Riding. It has no less than 220 trains a-day, while the vast amount of business carried on there naturally gives rise to a large proportion of the assize business, not, as Mr. LEATHAM jokingly pretended, on account of the greater wickedness of the population, but from the fair proportion of numbers and opportunities. With regard to the accommodation, it was asserted that Leeds had superior advantages, and the town had already pur chased land, made contracts for building, and entered into other arrangements for facilitating the business of the assize. On these grounds, therefore, we are not surprised that the House of Commons should have resolved not to interfere with the de cision of the Privy Council, but to let the matter rest in its present position. At this inclement season of the year there can not be tco many schemes set on foot for the suc cour of the poor and homeless. It is to be won dered at that there have not been more efforts made, considering the urgent necessity that exists for some remedial measures. Scarcely a day passes in which some case is not recorded of dreadful destitution and abject misery. People read of these cruel sufferings, and lament the fate of these neglected wanderers on life's highway, but how few really try t) do anything to put a stop to the recurrence of the calamities I This is the only true way to benefit society, and gradually but surely to introduce a new state of things. There is now set on foot a most excellent undertaking, which is to establish " a nightly refuge for some of the poor outcasts of the West end of London." The advantages of such a plan are manifold, and it is not likely that the plan can be otherwise than successful when it is once fairly put into working order. Of course there are many objec tions raised against the adoption of the scheme, and all the arguments that have already been worn threadbare are again put into requisition as to the futility of such notions, and the impru dence of doing so much for those who ought to work, but will not. This last pretext affords a very convenient excuse for a great many refusals to aid and assist the prior and indigent, but a more unfair or unfounded accusation does not often exist. Only those who have had much ex perience in the workings of existence among the lower orders can enter into the many and great difficulties that lay in the way, and altogether impede the course of their employments. Besides, it sickness or distress has not at the first been the primary agent in throwing a family out of work, and if there is great blame to to be attached to the parties concerned, is it just or reasonable that the families or relatives should be left to starve, while the stern and inflexible lookers-on exclaim—" It serves them right for losing this place and not taking that situation ?" Some people are also very ready to declare that there is already quite enough provision made for the poor; but how truly may it be retorted that the "parochial authorities aro most dilatory, and often put off compliance to the urgent demand until help is too late, and succour unavailing. Until the arrargements for relief at workhouses are very different to what they are at present, there will remain much for private endeavours to accom plish ; and it is the unwillingness to assist that prompts the negative answer that so frequently damps the efforts of the well-meaning and zealous to better the condition of their hapless fellow creatures. At the cast end of London an institution of this kind has been established for some time, and has been the means of effecting great good to the classes for whom it was especially designed. This new scheme for forming a " nightly refuge" at the West-end will only cost about £5OO, and will be capable of receiving one hundred inmates of both sexes. These outcasts are provided with food and lodging, and the luxury of a bath. The committee are to be vigilant to guard against deception ; and of course if due precautions are taken the impostors will soon be discovered. Each party is to furnish an account of his previous life; and if it be found that occasion demands it, subsequent steps will be taken to follow up the succour already afforded, by more timely help and more lasting benefits. It is almost impossible to overrate the beneficial and stimulating effects that are produced on the out cast, driven from one place to another refused ad mittence here and told to " move en" there, when admitted into the sheltering precints of such a " city of refuge." Tho kindness and attention thus bestowed will never be thrown away, and one of the chief claims which these undertakings can urge to public support, and public favour ire that they are often instrumental in arresting the downward pro gress, and in enabling the waverer to keep to the right path. Also they are of service to the large class of unfortunate individuals who, from ignorance and the raachinationsof others, have been led astray, but who are not by any means oonfirnaed criminals, and may be in a great measure, if not altogether, redeemed from the error of their ways, if only a helping hand is stretched out, and efficient means are employed to rescue them from their perilous position. Many of these unhappy beings are driven into the commiesiou of crimes to provide themselves with food and Shelter. The law is ready and active to pronounce where they shall not go, and what they must net do, but says nothing as to what spot they may seek to gain a shelter, and how they may provide themselves with food. It is to rectify this anomaly then that then " refugee'' are des i g ned, and it will be a scandal to our Christian community if they aro not properly supported, comm d on successfully. When it is contemplated how many squander fortunes on trines, waste fabulous sums on business, and fling away what would sa ve many a family from perishing to pan der to their extravagant fancies, it may well be urged upon them that they may snare a tithe out of their a b u ndance to bestow upon house:less misery and starving mendicants. The accommodation provided is suitable, and doubt same time it is not of t he class or kind that would the recipid n t s , but at the less greatly enjoyed b y tempt the undeserving and irreclaimable away front the haunts where they can gain more and be better suited to their tastes. Surely a higher end for hutneea efferta can hardly ba found than thus to THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1864. 'REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SCHLES WIG, FEB. 21. THE WURZBURG CONFERENCE. WURZBURG, FEB. 22. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG. THE DEMOLITION OF THE DANNEWIRKE, One hundred sappers have arrived here, and forthwith commenced the razing of the Danne wirke. Four hundred labourers are assisting in the work of demolition. The Conference of Ministers, held in this city, has agreed to the proposition of Saxony, that the minor States should be united in their attitude in the event of the Great German Powers endeavour ing to withdraw forcibly from the Federal Diet, the right of disposing of Holstein. It was also resolved not to sanction any conven- ion affecting the rights of the Duchies, and that ,he Federal Diet alone has to decide on the succes- sion question. The Conference further resolved that more Fede ral troops should be sent to secure Holstein, and that preparations be made for the mobilisation of the armies of the minor States SEIZURE OP A BRITISH STEAMER AT MALAGA. MADRID, FEB. 20. Thu British steamer Princess, which touched at Malaga to take in coal, has been seized by the authorities of that port. It was discovered that she carried in her hold some rifled cannon, muskets, ammunition, and other warlike effects. The seizure was effected on accounnt of her des tination being unknown. GREECE, TRIES FE, FEB, 20. Advices received here from Athens state that the Greek National Assembly has empowered the Finance Minister to issue credit bonds for 3,000,000 drachmas, which will have a forced currency. Riots have taken place in Athens, owing to the editor of one of the papers having been insulted by the son of Chamberlain Sontzo. The Chamberlain has been dismissed from his post, as implicated in the affair. Instructions have been sent to the Greek Ambas sador in London to procure a modification of the treaty for the cession of the lonian Islands. PORTUGAL. LISBON, FEB. 15. It is stated that Senher Antonio Jose d'Avila, lately elevated to the peerage, under the title of Count d'Avila, will be sent to Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary, the Viscount de Paiva being trans ferred to Madrid. Senhor Soveral, the Minister at Madrid, to remain for the present out of office. It, is also added that the Duke de Saldanha, at present Ambassador at Rome, to be transferred to London. Senhor Carlos Ramiro Continho has been created Baron de Barceillinluos. It is said that other nominations are about to be made. The Di ario publishes the decree giving the con c:ssion to the Portugal Iron and Coal Company. FRANCE. GREAT FALL OF SNOW IN FRANCE, PARIS, FEB. 22 Telegrams received here announce that enor mous quantities of snow have fallen in the de partments of iferault, Aude, Ardeche, Rhone, and Drome, and that the railway traffic is interrupted in consequence. BOURSE, Feb. 20.—Stock has been rather offered since the commencement of business, and prices have kept gradually receding. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 40c. Mobilier also show lower quotations, the present rate being 1,042 f. 50c. The Railway Market has been without much ani mation, and prices rainain without any material variation. The market left off as follows :- 41 per Cents. .. 95 60 Italian Loan .67- 90 Do. end month.... Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 66 35 Do. end mouth — Credit M0bi1ier....1.042 50 Russian Do. end m0nth....1042i Axistrian - Baal: Shares ...... 3'-'9O Spanieh Threes.„, 5l 25 Credit Fonder ....1275 Elome Debt Deferred R o man .......... WAYS. ILA IL' _____ ___ Cash. Account. O•lerms lOO6 . .. 1005 Northern - New ditto Lyons and bleditsrnmean 933 75 .. 935 New ditto Soathern 657 50 •.. 658 7 5 Western Eastern S,lril inian Austrian Lorebard North of Spain Saragossa' 6 S 7 50 .. 585 Ditto to Barcelona - Peace Propositions ngrein the Confederate Coss. (From the ,Richmond Examiner, Feb. 8.) Th 3 following extraordinary resolutions were yesterday intr&duced in the House of Representa tives by Mr. Wright, of Georgia. The house went into secret session before taking any action upon them : Whereas, the President of the United States in a late public communication, did declare that no propositions for peace had been made to that Government by the Confede rate States, when, in truth, such propositions were pre vented from being made by the President of the United States in that he refused to hear, or even to receive, two commissioners appointed to treat expressly of the preserva tion of amicable relations between the two Government's. Nevertheless, that the Confederate States may stand jus• tifled in the sight of the conservative men of the North of all parties, and that the world may know which of the two Governments it is that urges on a war unparalleled for the fierceness of the conflict, and intensifying into a sectional hatted unsurpassed in the annals of mankind. Therefore Resolved, —That the Confederate States invite the United States, through their Government at Washington, to meet them by representatives equal to their representa tives and senators in their respeetive Congrtss at ,on the day of neat, to consider, 1. Whether they cannot agree upon the recognition of tlio Confederate States of America. 2. In the event of such recognition, whether they cannot agree upon the formation of a new Government, founded upon the equality and sovereignty of the States'; but if this cannot be done, to consider, 3. Whether they cannot agree upon treaties, offensive, defensive, and commercial. liesolved,—ln the event of the passage of these resolu tions, the President be requested to communicate the same to the Government at Washington, in such manner as he shall deem most in accordance with the usages of nations; and in the event of their acceptance by that Government, he do issue his proclamation of election of delegates, under such regulations as ho may deem expedient. AV AT MEANS Tins P—A very singular scene was exhiibted, we are informed by those :present, at the Worcester depot on Sunday evening, upon the arri val of a considerable body of Confederate prisoners under the escort of the Ellsworth Zauave,3. Although the hour was late, a largo body of men and boys, amounting to se veral hundreds, had collected around the depot, in antici pation of the arrival of these prisoners, and welcomed them with signileant shouts Of sympathy. Tha rush was altogether too powerful for the escort, which threatened some violence, but soon relinquished the idea upon threats of retaliation, so that the crowd uttered cheers for various distinguished personages in the rebel territory, and the prisoners united iu singing characteristic songs. Some of the prisoners who were ill were taken up by the outsiders and carried along; many of the crowd were mingled up in the ranks as the body moved through the streets ; nor did they abandon their demonstration until the prisoners were Ifairly delivered up at their quarters,—.o9son co/frier, I'b, 2, Literary Intelligence, CHARLES DICKENS'S FORTHCOIIING SERIAL STORY 1- -The first number of the new novel by the author of " Pickwick," which will appear on the Ist of May. accord ing to announcement, in the two familiar green leaves, in one respect will be different in its appearance from its famous predecessors. The illustrations, instead of being steel etch ings by H. K. Browne (Phiz), wia be wood engravings by Marcus Stone. Mit. TENNYSON'S NEW POEM, of " Boadicea," is so far completed that its publication by Messrs. Moron and Co. may be looked for at an early day. Itonrirr BROWNING, another of our few great living poets, has also a new volume of poems nearly ready for the press. A NEW PROTESTANT VERSICN OF THE SCRIPTURES, now in course of publication at Penis, is termed on the title page, " Traduction nouvelle d'apres les testes Hebreu et Grec, par une reunion de pasteurt et de ministres des deui Eglises Protestantes rationales de France." JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY, ISY R. G. LATHAM (Part I.), will be published by Messrs. Longtnan and Co. on the 29th inst. The work will be continued monthly, and completed in 36 Parts, forming 2 vole. quart). TRACKERAYANA, MR, THA.CKERIT'S Housu is to be sold. An advertise ment in the rapers has caused many hundreds of people to visit the residence of the great humorist. It is said that a sale will be held of the books, furniture, and curiosities early in the coming month. His incomplete posthumous story of "Denis Duval" will be illustrated with woodcuts drawn by Mr. Walker, the first of them after a design by the author. THE NOVELLETTE, 66 COUSIN Palmas," recently pub :ished in the Cornhill, is underatood to be from the pen of Miss Thackeray. IN TUE NEW YORK " ALBION" of the 10th of January appeared a biographical sketch of Thackeray by Mr. Sale. THACKERAY AND THE OxFonn VICE-CHANCELLOR. —" Play what can I do to serve you, sir ?" inquired the bland functionary. "My name is Thickeray." " So I see by this card." "I seek permission to lecturo w:thin the pre cincts." "Ah I you are a lecturer ; what subjects do you undertake—religious or political ?" " Neither ; I am a literary man." "Have you written anything ?" " Yes ; lam the author 'Vanity Fair.' " " I presume a dissenter —has that anything to do with John Bunyan's book ?" "Not exactly ; I have also written 6 Pendennis.' " " Never heard of these works; but no doubt they are proper books.' "I have contributed to Punch. Punch ! I have heard o that ; is it not a ribald publication ? SHAKSPERE ANA, Profiting by the public criticism to vhich they have been exposed, the Council of the Shakspero Committee, says the Athenceum, have adopted a self-denying ordinance. Look ing on all sides for an active and popular Executive, for gentlemen who could carry into effect the public desires, they have found them outeide their own ranks; and, having found them, they have carried in the General Committee a vote which virtually transfers the leacing and active powers of the committee from their own into other hands. This act was wise; and their sharpest critics must allow that it was also unselfish. Men who thought more of themselves than of the cause in which they were engaged would, perhaps, have hesitated to do it. Tie Council have been sometimes blamed fur alleged self-seeking in this matter ; when their faults of the past are remembered in the future, generous men will not forget how readily and gracefully they have now fallen in with what appears to be the wish of their literary brethren. THE GROWTH Or THE COMMlTTEE.—Ferdinand grath, Esq., Joseph 1.. \r yon, Esq., German Reed, Esq., S. D. Sassom, Esq , have been elected members of the Na tional ShakEpere Committee. Tern STIA.KSPERE BADGE FOR THE 23D OF Aram.—The riband manufacturers of Coventry have just produced an appropriate decoration to be worn on the days of the ap proaching Shakspere Festival. The badge consists of three leaves. On one is the residence of the poet ; on another, the church of Stratford-on-Avon, and on the third, a por- trait of Shaksi.el e (from the Cbandos picture)—the three devices being attached by a buttes, on which are engraved the Shalzspere arms and crest. SHAKSPERE A LA RUSSE,—The second edition of a Rus sian translation of Shakspero by 31. Ketcher has just been published at Moscow. The first edition, it appears, is out of print. SumisrEßE IN ITALY.—The best tragic actor in Ital Tommaso Salvini, has been giving a series of performances at the Paganini Theatre at Genoa, and, for his benefit, played his most celebrated part, °tell°, in an Italian ver sion of our Shakepere's" Othello," William Bunt, the Water Colourist "A Bunch of May," the property of Mr. Wade, which, while each pearl-hued petal has every tint and hue of nature, =el the-most subtle foreshortening of its forMs, is, as a whole, a masterpiece of composition, not only in massing, but in chiaroscuro and, in its limited scope, in colour. Before us also is "A Study of Hyacinths," drawn with a purity and breadth in treatment of form, such as a Greek painter might envy, solid at, a stereoscopic photo graph, fi n i s hed beyond the dreams of a Dutchman , and incomparably brilliant. There is also a third drawing, "Grapes, Peach, and Plum" (exhibited at the Water• Colour Society's Exhibition, 18W), which glows with Titianesque ardours, and is as vivid, withal as sweet in tone, as if the fruit it dealt with hal ripened in the Golden Age. lendour of To him we owe a full recognition of the sp colour in common objects. Who else but Hunt could have painted that " Study of Gold—a Smoked Pilchard " (No. 216, Water-Colour Exhibition, 1860), which is now ill ?uses in our Governmen t Art-School s as a triumph of colour p ro duced the "Study o f Rose - Grey—a Mushroom," which accompanied it ?At the now -open Water-Colour Society's Exhibition is a "Dead Humming-Bird," which glows with turquoise blue, green and gold, and even from the furthest side of the room sparkles marvellouslly. When, at the Exposition Universello, Paris, 1855, eleven French attested , first, the sur p rise of the critics, and, se of the master's w orks were shown, the acclama tions of the condly, their know led g e of Ar t. A s a humorist and deli neator of characte r, Willia m Hunt obtained at home a fairer recognition, and those who remember the last ex hibited work of this class, " Tke Fly-Fisher" (No. 212, Water-Colour Exhibition, 1862), will not withhold from the artist their high admiration. Such admiration was given to the man who painted, with inimitable humour, t h e stealthy creep of the bo y's h and behind, and, as he thinks, away fr om the si g ht of that magnificent blue-bottle, w hich, if the fishe r has his wa y , will soon be tering bait irre with purpose , his his in-hold breath, his lightly-lifted shoulders are, hi s cautious foot - fall and nervous gap s upon the rod, the po i n ts of character such as Hogarth would embrace ale to certain chub. That boy's eyes, glit artist for having painted.— Athememnr. SAINToN AND MADAME DoLDY Kaye been making a successful tour in Holland. MR. BENEDICT has finished a new operetta, the title of which is " The Bride of Song!' T H E 'THEATRE AT CHAMBERS has beau deatroF©d by fire. TIIE FOUR "LIBERAL" CANDIDATES FOR chief b t h e Spectator as BRIGHTON are aptly d e scribe —Mr. Fawce tt, a man ~,,h o, b e ing d r espe whose c t a ble, could nev er y recum m endation was hi s property within the borough ; Mr. be popular i n Bri ghton ; Mr. Julia n Goldamid, Duma s, who had no recommend ation at a 11; and a Mr. limper, whose claim was that he thought all Catholics must be damned. PHOTOGRAPHS BY NIGHT..--IVIr. Whipple, of s of the foun tain Boston, has produced effective p hotograph ic light. The on Boston Common, illu m i na t e d by the electr spray of the fountain, the leaves of t h e trees, and t he per sons under them aro distinctly rendered. H AN SOM CABS have been i ntro duced iOtO t he T U B ROMAN island of Trinidad, in the We st Indies. of o ur antiquaries in favour of p reserving the Roman tumu l i at B irtlow has been cr owned with success. Even T UmuLI SAVED. --The struggle r ailway boards arc not insensible to earnest and unselfish a ppeals on behalf of science , and the engineer of the Great Eastern Railway has contrived to l a y his lines so as to avoid disturbing these Boman remains. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY and 'Doctor the new Bishop of Cork--interlocutors at Gregg,nbishop : "Come, though you are John Cork, you mustn't stop the bottle here." Bishop answering, not ihaptly—" I Bee your lOrdship is determined to draw me out." A PUZZLING QUERY ..—Question If Brigham he be a widower ? young, the Mormon, were to lose one of his GO wives, would exp hing of grief from the loss American, paper. ber, as sovereign of liawaii, KING KAldErfaxEnA, who died on the 30th of Nevem- A.nswer ?—Not enough to hurt him,— of his only son, was a m an powers, of ele gant tastes, keen perceptions, who could enjoy Kingsley, Thackeray, Tennyson, and Was ever qa9ttug Sbak opera, L I Peculiar. A Tale of the Great Traesition, By Epes Sargent. Edited by William Howitt. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. Mr. William Howitt introduces to the English public an authorised version of this new American novel, which he tells us is "flashing through the United States, like a new ' Uncle Tom'' Peculiar' hare, Peculiar' there, Peculiar' everywhere." Mr. Howitt himself is evidently greatly impressed with the attractive character of the work to which he stands sponsor. " What a crowd of people' he s ays, " What a host of new characters ! How strangely they talk! If such a thing us a kaleidos copical photograph were possible, here it is ! Gen tlemen, and men anything but gentle ; slave owners, slave-dealers, slave-markets. Ladies, and fine women who might be ladies if they had not been educated into selfish, heartless, worldly clothes horses—regresses, war, politics, spiritualism, ras cality in grass-cloth' and heroes in native black; what a medley ! Yet how living, how exciting ! I feel myself drawn deeper and farther into the rushing interest of what I see working through the chaos." It is Mr, Sargent, of Boston, U.S., the Chambers of America, who has thus struck forth into a new vein —that great vein which yet flows only with Ame rica's best blood, but which will, for ages, flow with the thrilling reminiscences and creations of American genius. The political earthquake has for a time struck dumb all Transatlantic thinkers—there has been an awful, but a pregnant silence. Mr. Sargent is the first to break it in his " Peculiar" way: and familiar as are all the States, united and disunited, with the great and terrible features of this domestic convulsion, has presented them with a vigour and freshness that gives a charm even to the appal ling. He says to me, continues Mr. Howitt.: "Here are my corrected sheets to the eighth edition of a work but a few days old—present them to your countrymen, and pay over the profits due to me to the fund for the relief of our woundedsoldiers." The work takes its title from one of its principal characters, a slave, who is, called PECULIAR INSTI TUTION, and who generally goes by the name of Peek. The story is romantic and painful in the extreme. All the horrors of the slave trade, women sold by auction, men and women stripped and flogged, and other inhuman barbarities alternately shock nd grieve us, while, in the story of Estelle, and again in that of Clara, a revolting situation, si milar to that of Appius Claudius, and the daughter of Virginias is introduced. The work is clever, no doubt, but its perusal can afford no pleasure, and in this country, at all events, the horrors of slavery are too vividly recignised and too vehemently detested to require the additions of fiction to in crease their actual enormity. As a specimen of the American "sensational" novel, "Peculiar" has, of course, its own peculiar interest, and the curious may feel indebted to Mr. Howitt for the introduc • :ion of a new element of excitement to the almost used-up" sensationalists. Bella Donna, or the Cross before the Name. A Romance. By Gilbert Dyca. Two Vols Richard Bentley. A poor relation, hospitably entertained at the house of Mr. Franklyn, a country gentleman, and most affectionately treated by all his family, is the heroine of this romance. bhe, as we are led to believe, unwittingly attracts the attentions of the only son of the house, a young officer at home on leave of absence from his regiment, and nothing can apparently be more noble than her conduct, on being made acquainted with his passion. Aware of the mischief which must be done to his numerous sisters, should the heir to a deeply encumbered estate, marry without fortune, she at once apprises Mr. Franklyn of his son's proposal, and determines to quit the house, a resolution which she carries into effect in opposition to the entreaties of every member of the family, except the father, who is naturally enough disconcerted, and displeased by a discovery which prevents his accomplishing a scheme of his own, namely, his son's marriage with the daughter of a rich manufacturer, who would bring him a fortune sufficient to clear the property and provide handsomely for his daughters. The young man storms and vows that he will at once go back to India, whence he has but just returned under a sick certificate. And as this would be tantamount to certain death, Mr. Franklyn consents to his mar riage, after frankly explaining to him the state of his affairs. Jenny Ball, the heroine, for some unex plained reason, stops at a railway station on her way home, where she is overtaken by her lover and one of his sisters, who announce the father's acquiescence to their union, but Jenny remains inexorable, and all they can obtain from her is, a promise that she will stay for another day where she is. Next morning old Franklyn himself appears, and at his earnest solicitation, she is induced to return as the r.ffi in ced bride of his son. There is great happiness for a few days in the household, which is termi ❑ated by theZarrival, from a visit, of Charlotte, the eldest of Mr. Franklyn's daughters. She by a quiet and clever course of reesouing points out to her brother Charles the unpleasant consequences of the step he is about to take, and induces the selfish fel low to break off the match : and then it is we ga an insight into the real character of the heroine, whom we have before considered to be so amiable and so honourable. She vows revenge against the destroyer of het happiness, and places an " " before her name, in a small book containing her diary. From that moment, - war to the knife, is carried on be tween the ladies. Franklyn, unable to raise money for this same daughter's fortune, her match with young Craven, a baronet's son, is broken off, and the old man commits suicide. The family are driven from the house, which,with the estate, is to be sold, and are located in shabby lodgings in London, where Jenny Bell, now governess in an eminent lawyer's house, discovers them, and enjoys their sufferings. The lawyer's wife is bed-ridden, and he proposes to marry Jenny at her death, but a letter she has written to young Craven, on whose heart it would appear she has a design, being shown by his wife to the barrister, she is at once expelled from the house, and we learn no thing more of her after fate. Meanwhile a rich uncle intervenes, redeems the Franklyn Estate, and Charlotte is married to young Craven. The book is written in that smart, cynical style at prey sent so very popular—it interests, but does not instruct, and depicts only the worst side of human nature. There is not one faultless character in the story. Oid Franklyn, a weak man, supposed to have committed forgery, poisons himself. The son, a heartless egotist, interferes to prevent Jenny's union with a silly Parson, who would have married her—then cruelly breaks off the match—and never afterwards appears amongst the dramatis personce. Sir Craven Welbore, and his wife, are very worldly, and common - place people, and their son, although the only person who exhibits con stancy, or a feeling of honour, is far from being perfect—while Charlotte is a clever dissembler, and Jenny Bella second Becky Sharp. " Bella Donna" is a book which may amuse its readers, from the clever manner in which it is written; yet we can not but regret that Mr. Gilbert Dyce should have employed his time and unquestionable talents in depicting the worst passions of our nature, without introducing the slightest alloy of tenderness or generosity into his sketches. Charlie Thornhill ; or, The Dance of the Family. By Charles Clarke. Second Edition. Chapman and Hall. This is a capital book for reissue in a popular form. It is interesting as a tale, and it abou nds with lively descriptions and animated adve ntures. The frontispiece depicts the fair Edith i n that perilous moment when she is rescued from dan g er by the adventurous hero. Charlie is a v . rY delightful character, and we heartily agree with Lady Montagu Mastodon in her declarat ion respect ing this dunce of the family, that 14 a man may not know the difference between Niger and Nigger, and-yet get through the world remarkalely well." Uncle Crotty's I?elations. By Herbert Glyn, Author of "The Cotton Lord." Two Vols. Smith, Elder, and Co. This is a very interesting novel of the domestic clams. Charlotte Crombie is a most charming, unas suming, loveable heroine. Even when for a time imeted with it " little brief authority" as a eup I ------',..,---- posed heiress, and again, when exposed to aver painful temptation, her natural sirnplicity and truthfutness do not forsake her ; and the readers of her story heartily synapathise with her innocent delight when love and fortune at length combine to befriend her. The story of her ister, the beautiful but erring sate, has a painful interest, and if. perhaps, somewhat overdone, affords an evidence of how easily one false step leads downwards to de struction. Uncle Crotty himself is a very character; and the vindictive old aunt who figures in the ear:y portion of the tale is very capitally delineated. delightful Passages in the Life of an OM Ey T. C. One Vol., pp. 303. Siunders and Ottley. In the opening chapter of this story the homely' little town of ton is startled from its quies cence by a sad railway accident. MIOI4 the buf' fercrs is found the dead body of an unknown lady' with a little infant in her arms. This bereaved child is the heroine of-the tale, and her adventures are full of interest, and are detailed raftera Mel natural style. The fair Iklargaret is, long years, restored to m b er family ; but We shall not further betray the ystery that envelopes the early portion of her life. .--....... The Life of Sir Timothy Graceless. himself. Edited by Omega. Three Vole• J. Cs Newby. We must confess that the opening chapter o story, wherein Sir Timothy Graceless is discastgag_ the ed i h te iv r his memoirs with his alter ego, Omega, "Written bi of his history, did not impress us very. favouravi; in its behalf. There is so much flippaneY iii t i n tone, and so much -apparent striving a fter effect ot. the style, as completely to defeat its own ebi e ~ In the body of the story, wore effeeti 21 more natural, and, consequently, 6 6 waif or gr a f i ; Sir Timothy, the hero, is a little born, like Jack Shepherd, in a prisos. ij°vired letteiler ultimately obtains the honourable three' let to his name we must leave to his biographer to detail at full length in the pages of hie histar'' however, the authoc: ,fits _Baron..."TlTSaprtsir.s ;Boyr, J. I G 3 . 7 .E : s ci 4 g ad:: sotsiti Posr in How How 1 won , ~,,,, I 3 This Il: 4 Danes,l3 book 8 illustrated. will 4 period boyih onbse,arnigdhutNewoeretornienaoninse,':: c.the:ll: :010: reader. It contains some attraCtive ellaPterEllit'llrfatiol the romafnceehoifmßhsaiersiotfonry during the 'elf r°lllsn tb e o h f er t o h , Wars' boyish how, u n : o tultimately aean enthralling li w in o g n d ers ' u :e l l peal s is a iniscit3°lriaid :°l33ldeillrtireYel°ll6ll3llll3eo this w v o elr e v a l veracious o ' u i Edward, afterwp.rds King Edward I. 190 e °,, of n p_ a o_ r ri r a_ a rey t i vseh"je. spurs at the hand of ;00 the panitneeS a elvi": dltiesprlaoyfinagtrteheejiothuntgl throeroop of tbe t. ' procr i's plentifullywa nc'dlvr wolves will ag p e ei From th cuisltsraotfeditw. iHthatiiteruyiaerwirdite j d . fen.gvilii'll` by, round it. The °:.vgg be a 1 etd2L ,....... .ab1e gilt 1:°L...,,,,1'°ra boy. rinsllwrryhhoinews teahopptriiicseyshtosoidinrseigsaalriaeaileagethoemtd,s i° ad the e n tetioroarpii Kith Naval and Military Welligellee. ___ __ _ o R s anogyFearflirdoOsmaykrt join -4.----- THE NAVY . sea ship VALETTA, Fob. arri/ed (screw), 35 guns, Capt. F. A.. CarePbei';„, pas^ makinglymouth of 16 days, calling at Lisboa e;froot raltar,thel:--ecilitleerrral:2leitajnestitye'est, iron-est the voyage from the former in 91 a Alt 1 11 the latter in so broc6roets, 5 days, under sail and steata• passengers Lieut. Morgan and several naval sUPOIII/esoct ries. __ Sheseagoing proved herself, I am informed, in eVerY Vto. " sent,,,mindg vessel. From her immense SiZ3, llet'lltio ob' to when be rect of much h ovel mode of construction, she 1119 heetlllo van attraction since her appearance ill Ship er 0 0 Although the Marlborough,carrying only 35 guns, she is 56 to6o alio i 121 guns, the present flagl3 stilts station after -s ..Aoit, The latter ship, it is expected, will leevo toe so as to arrive in Eugland sb°llt 0 go tiiP paid th . e oil‘ ; .Victoria will be ready fo r 'FA 1 8 hiP coraraiso ~,,, otoreo , in the Mediterr Her Mejestys iron ser', li orifeo Supply, 2, Ma anem. ster-Commander C. 13awden, 1111..°1701,48 01 on the Ist inat Deptford, continued liejtoo, for the. the 13th inst ''from fleet. The .for Corfu, after discharging Vtr°o4. 1 1 ' 1 Hire, hs iron screw troopship Orontes, 'l,,iire Austriac yet arrived from Englacd• 'l. 000'11 vessel of war Conte Conte Dandolo, which had beearitiesdaYlss,,' in our port, took her departure for Algiers 0 11 r t . Vit. tie Her Ida • 3 Majesty's screw corvette Cossack, 20, 'l3&rfu. it: sheunder orders to leave to-raarrosT Or ro f tu" Rolland,understoodla.iiodlee De, is to take up Major Shot, P..- ,0 VIC Royal Engineers, who is expected to-night lair 1" oat visi from Marseilles. Other engineers are on the for the Orontes, to take .A e _ ~f t part in the destruction ct ''''' isod "A tines of V . ido and some of the th worts irl tbe,ie 0016; Corfu, which seems to have e er revocablY "-ter ail" been ir. to SAP ,30 upon. The expedition for the repair 01 vight Alexandria telegraph cable started on Saturds.9.oo, i i i be for the eved neighbourhood of Benghazi, where the oibert,ospl. of c ola lito exist. The chartered stainer FannY Put/. Christopher, carried with her fficient (11011titisr.C°''' a and all the necessary ..„ _ _room 1 uin'njageirengineer, and Mr. de Sauty olectricisll,lov, ;opal° with an efficient staff. Mr'. Gibson, the liu',. WO t Iwo ,s inspector, accompanies the expeditiou on bellah ° 14,,jest1 r Gwernment ' ship , and Lieut. Drew, It.N, from he r „,„ei, fic it Hydra, is to assist in the navigation of the Orr i'r\iviliesty's screw gunvessel Sal pis°, 4, Comte stied Yte' has proceeded with the FadanY Lelllbehl, shred. .upon her and render any assistance that nisi ;.,'_.-40,i ff:, b he local military submarine telegraph in the has b oa I Q ' so our, between Forts Rieasoli and St, Allgel' Vovetli°l3.d° hamseueteiume past out of order, and considerable icaleol° ogle`' was establishedcauaed thereby to the garrison. C , ,i 0 Ja y') , in Dec. latt but soon aferWaros % iis JO' ) ' VOred 1 100 steamer draggi2g her anchor again se oi l to Through . the exertions of Mr. Gibson advantage _ Glob of the presence here of the re airing staff of lkleoer':ho the Elliot, and Co., and there is ev eryP reason to belie/4'5,0e screwcable has now been effectually repaired. 11 „./ C0014,' cam® corvette Pelican, 17, Commander W. ,13111' a in this afternoon from Beyrout ia 12 dal e d ; _,a",lisa. 0 5 ; and the Piro 0 • Dit becA P" pe , tis, .m. Lieut. e 0 she bn Rear-Ad • naral Yelverton, arrived by her. .-i 1 . t a til ei news of importance. vice- reels An - • examination of naval engineers, with 0 , w ill t$ h W 0110 i 000oi receiving certificates from the I a. Dr. place at tke Royal Naval College, Portsnioutht °II at inst. r ad sattl tot The following appointments were Made ° I t o ° b y the Admiralty :--Conarnander B. Madden owiliotigb'o vies Watson, promoted; Sub-Lieut. Nesbit 1'01,01300/1; to the Princess Royal ; Raymond B. Neocllltll33', 0 tcrartieo to the Edgar ; Frederick Fanfold, paymaster, —sod et 0 to Rear-Admiral King •; Charles T. 05061a0151/ 74, Mackern, assist.-paymasters in the Prince° '-osiet-"rist secretary's clerks ; .J. W. R. 13. Galsworthi't psylo6 master, to the Victory ; and S. S. C. 1101, 0 06i° .. to the Indus. o.•••••••••••• .---....... 1 1i1/ Regime The success which TalitteEndeAdEtt:!l.oll. ibitio.l:. °f the 11. - r ; shotnt at Dublin has induced the autlaori loot 0010 to institute a similar project, in order til3 their _1)1.108 may have some profitable occupation during% 4011.1;01 hours, as well as to afford them an opportunil ° 4,000 to tbheir. abilities !tt inventing and malting a rtic le :00 iiie 0 i to e both serviceable to the purchaser and r,i,orf ),:rect l the maker. Thep rincipal object in vial/ wittily er' will into the amount of crime. The project is hi'.,, 0.0_4 to by th e officers, and there is not the least deaor'o otenve, prove quite as successful as that at Dublin. 43111,3ci tO 5 have been held during the present yogis, at titibi c e, re l. s. ; tided that the officers commanding ouch regicat to flie`,',o, and departments as may be willing to take Ott 00001tett hibition by the naerabers, and forma 'elier,':j coole!,0 Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. l' en nefather, 1i,.07J3•9 71 -:,„ ; poet -0,, to be president, and general officer coloolaPL,i-jord, .. t i • vice-presidents. Lieut. Col. the lion. i• vi- A.C2.1u.-;p: AQ.1N1.0.; Lieut.-Col. Lennox, 17..0 t 1)'::;, i e o r, Poi Major iarnmersley, director of gytoll6,,s;'.io'cie i1',40, pointed secretaries; and Capt. gaclean, Pa' treso:l Do Ist Dzigade, and Capt, Lockhart, D.l*-Ik,;it'tion ' l.l st •lto Every regiment taking part in tho '3.:03 -owed, rO O regulated by a court formed among "4..0 unde_,lter are to make their own necessary arraog°lll 13 al ; A iOvilot direction of their comma officers, ill,avo to doili:c,to as he shall see tit. Each regimont Will Potoactl eveof tools as may be required by the non-coniotol ..rioteato .0 and men. It was also decided that if .. i__.`.ll: Defer() `.."01 quartered at Aldershot should be ottltrove::lll.tiottit.ilro've exhibition was opened they should sal , i' . . tl :iiiug ali °,,i ill° articles to be exhibited. The privilege eL_'-it oho elso,soiootil ing thin,,s will not be confined to any Por 00..0000,0 opj military, but will be oen to ofilooritol's twit vii,'coo,o officers, and men of all ranks, as we,t, ~,bibited Wi ll o. ~zie children. The articles proposed to .1., `,7o,oTiop r:,.00, under the following beads :--ri.lioilet coveatervo,., oil tograpby; carving, cabinet maloteegoot%ccotitreoit cry'worv; military engineering, instruraento.__,uvioro, lea0011,•mot Joe the ; arniourers' and ics i.ilf.,co witt bs 0 :cortooc, and needlework and clothwor .A.l.::atetr, nt_ue, otei . the exhibition of articles collected .. eoYet:ro, o f 1 3 . t ' o ' (leo c t el . sioned olieers, and non duil.pg,htiaceobition iv0i11,0,014:01 in different parts of the w0r1i1;01:,,,,,i0,, tiro,iiii re;_;., oret:o TJIIIIB next, and when the p v .r.`, shoal __ 1001" o i the committee will deciiie nod i.e!--;.;t4 Itoy:l)lf ~c , 0 ''' The proceedins aro sanctio.o2iTti.„' will 0 t, lip • Ch ie f . 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